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f A THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEK: Al'Klb 20, ivzv. OUNG GRANDMA RGES EARLY fEDDING KNOTS I I Should Be Maximum Age at Which Girls Should Marry and 14 None Too Young. By GILMAN PARKER, tornstloaal Vent Srrvlrc Staff Corre poodrnt. Chicago, April 24. Eighteen imiM li h tnavimmn acr at Phich eirls should marry, and 14 is Pone too young, it is firmly believed ry Mrs. Laura D. Lawson of Chi- ago, who was a grandmother when die was 30 years old. She was larried when 13 years old and had daughter a year later. The daugh- er married at 15 and presented her mother with a granddaughter when he was 16 years of age. Now Mrs. Lawson is 4, an atn- ete, and the possessor of a com- lexion that a sub-deb would envy. "I fuppose they'd try to stone nic ut of the United States if I advo- ated the marriage of girls at 14,'' khe said. "So all I will say is that nine, a year earlier than that, turned out splendidly. "I believe that girls should marry ivery young, 18 at tlic very latest. iOne big trouble with modern young women is that their mothers are too old for them thev simply cannot get the right point of view on their daughters daily problems. "I always was more of a com panion to my daughters than a mother a mother of the modern Hype, at least. 1 took a wlioie- . . . i. - I niq ana ironi ineir viewpoint, unu took part in their affairs just as a girl friend would. "It is mv srreat hope to live to be MOO years young,' and T believe I will. " It is easy for a woman to re main young all her life. All she has to do is: 'Follow the Golden Rule and keep her face clean.' I've done that, and had only two facial mas sages in my life. And I never worry over trifles, which is an aging habit and a great fault of women today." Miss Hazel Doherty. Mrs. Law son's granddaughter, who is now 17, does not wholly share her youthful grandma's opinions. She says she doesn't intend to get married "for a long, long time." Superior Organizes Club To Replace Commerce Body Superior, Neb., April 24. (Spe cial Telegram.) A new club called "The Shifters," has been formed here with more than 100. members. George Fisher was elected presi dentand Claud Shaw, secretary. The club replaces the Commercial club. The meeting last night raised nearly $3,000 to employ a bandmas ter and more than $6,000 which they expect to increase to $10,000 for a budget. A paid secretary is to be employed. Oldest Omaha Realtor Will Observe Birthday Today A. F. Tukey, the oldest member of the Omaha Real Estate board, will celebrate his 75th birthday today t his home . 3121 Chicago street. His children, Mrs. H. E. Bryam. Chicago; Mrs. E. R. Mor rison, Kansas City. Mo.; Mrs. L. W. Korsmeyer, Lincoln, and Allan and Marry Tukey of Omaha, will be jresent for the event. Mount St. Marys Glee Club to Give Concert In Creighton Auditorium This Afternoon feSC. , I Mount St. Marys Glee club will give a concert in Creighton auditorium this afternoon. Proceeds will go to the building fund of the school. They will be assisted in the program by Miss Vir ginia Mulholland, harpist. The girls are, left to right, top row: Mary Koss, Aurelia Lammers, Mildred Flynn, Catherine Wheeler, Rosello McDermott and Grace Aldrich: second row: Marie Daily. Florence Shaw, Clair Conlan, Helen Bell, Myra Lite, Dora Killikelly, Bee Stienke and Elizabeth Clark; bottom row: Luree Wacek, Florence Donohue, Isabella Sullivan, lrrria btout and Elizabeth ttevendge. Plans for Overall Parade Cause Large Cut in Clothes' Prices New York, April 23. Coincident with the announcement that nearly 20,000 persons attired in overalls and old clothing are expected to parade here Saturday as a protest against the high cost of clothing, 30 or more clothing dealers, including the larger stores, Friday advertised substantial reductions in prices of ready-to-wear clothing. Comparisons of advertisements in newspapers with hose of last week revealed that reductions on men's clothes alone averaged $5 to $20 a suit. The price of the ordinary grades of ready-made suits, which last week averaged about $60, has dropped to near $45 with smaller average reductions in shirts and neckwear. Reductions on women's clothes were even greater, one of the city's principal stores advertising reduc tions of $10 to $24.50 of certain styles of misses' spring suits, coats and dresses. Anti-Wets Want Attorney In "Rumbellion" Prosecuted Chicago, April 24. Federal prose cution of Martin S. McDonough, state's attorney of Iron county, Michigan, in connection with the Iron River "rum rebellion" was re quested by the Illinois Anti-Saloon league in a telegram sent to Attorney General Palmer and made public to day. The action of the league fol lowed conviction of the Scalcucci brothers, central figures in the Iron River controversy. Two to One, He Laughs at Westerners When They Get 'Bumped by 'City Slickers in N. Y. James P. Lyford, broker, of New York, dismounted from his train at the Burlington station Friday after noon. He was a blase young New York er and wore a cane on his arm as if it belonged there. But he was entirely unprepared tor Omaha's metropolitan ways. He evinced surprise when he left the Burlington station and found paved streets and surface cars. He was more surprised when a dapper youth wearing a stiff green cap ap proached him and offered to deliver his bag at any hotel free of charge. But he surrendered the bag, an excellent bag of genuine alligator skin, to the yorrth with instructions to take it to Hotel Fontenelle. He then strolled slowly down town, found the hotel, registered, told a bell boy to take his bag to room 219 when it arrived and went out for another stroll. Three hours later lie went to his room. His bag had not arrived. He looked for the bell boy he had instructed, and was informed that No. 9 had gone oft duty an hour before. He then complained to Assistant Manager Stafford. Baggage was never lost at the Biltmore or the Ritz, he informed Mr. Stafford, and he would not tol erate such carelessness at th-i Fon tenelle. Had he not given the bag to a hotel boy in front of the sta tion fully three hours before? "Your's is a case for the police," Mr. Stafford finally informed him But Mr. Lyford of New York did not report the case. It meant "un desirable newspaper publicity if he did. he said. Mr. Stafford has received other reports from transients of a youth with a hotel cap who offers to carry baggage to hotels for transients. He will place the matter before the police. Wilson Approves Air Mail Washington, April 24. President Wilson today signed the annual postoffice appropriation bill, which carries provisions for an air mail service between New York and San Francisco via Chicago. Mexican Envoy at Berlin Berlin, April 24. Ysidro Fa bela, the new Mexican minister to Germany, presented his credentials to Dr. Ebert today. Dr. Miguel Cruchaga. Chilean minister here, left for home today. Ward Burgess Buys Large Tract South of Fairacres A 17-acre site, just south of Fair acres, on which he plans to erect a home, was purchased yesterday by Ward Burgess. The record price of $50,000 was .paid for the land. It lies between the estates of J. Ervine Brandeis and F. B. Kennard. Harry Tukey handled the trans action. Five acres were purchased from T. W. Robbins and 12 acres J. A. from Sunderland. TO dominate the open road in a handy, quick-about, light-weight car this is the trend of the time. Long have we waited for a car so thoroughly well balanced that its every movement is for ward so shorn of surplus weight that its up-keep cost is negligible so inherently fine in line and design as to gratify every desire for beauty and ele gance. Jordan cars were built only after careful study of all Amer ican and foreign cars had re vealed the prime car needs of today. For its wheelbase, the Jordan is the lightest car on the road. ' Men wearie'd with" the exces sive cost of driving big and bulky cars, choose with joy the Jordan. Says Sugar Profiteers Rival Pirates of Old (Continued From Tbs Ont.) United States for distribution to consumers at cost. A government sworn to protect its people permits this robbery and puts no curb on it. Profiteers Go Unhung. "This profit-taking campaign of j speculators and profiteers in sugar surpasses in bare-faced larceny any brutal demand yet made on this long- suffering and outraged nation. These profiteers and known, but they go unhung. Wall streets melon patches continue to be warmed by the sun of privilege,' fertilized by th-J pirspiration of labor, watered by the tears of poverty and this year will raise a record-breaking crop, free from the blight of income taxes, while the people are being urged to buy their coal early, to abstain from steag one day a week and to buy war savings stamps that Uncle Sam may live in a $9,000,000,000 style on a $6,000,000,000 income. "The extent to which people have been bled by extortion is almost un believable. The speculation and profiteering in cotton and cotton goods has been open, flagrant and scandalous; a recent senate investi gation received proof that the spread between farm and store prices of cotton materials was about 1,800 per cent, and that the reail price of cot ton goods is so high that ordinary persons can scarcely buy beddings, cottons, muslins and ginghams. If this is not grand larceny in daytime, I don't know." Raps "Melon Cutters." Senator Capper said the National Candy company showed increase of 545 per cent over 1915; Burns Bros., largest coal dealers in the country, maae a net profit ot 40 cents per ton against 2i in 1916; United Drug profits were 242 per cent greater than in 1916; Steel com pany's surplus after dividends ag gregated nearly $500,000,000 in the last five years, although $315,000, 000 was spent on improvements. "The patriotic melon cutters," senator Lapper continued, urge a tax on sales to pay the soldiers' bonus. It should be placed where it belongs, on war prots and stock dividends. The poor man's luxury is tobacco. Smokers may be in terested to know the tobacco pro ducers' corporation shows a rise of 1,547 per cent ocer 1914 profits. The General Cigar company amassed a net income of almost 38 cents out of each dollar of sales in 1919. "City rent hogs arc not satisfied with a 20 per cent return on capi tal. They hold up sceekers for shel ter, for all and more than they can pay. 100 Per Cent Americanism. "It is time when 100 per cent Americanism should be defined. If it means to evade taxes, cheat the government, swindle the people,' let this be clearly understood. But it would be instructive to know just the different in principle, between cheating the government and put ting it 'in band' and attempting to overthrow it in the dure manner of 'the bolshevists. Both methods reach the same results; one is merely more crafty than the other. We can regu late profits as we regulated usury and in such regulation provision can be made for maintaining a sinking fund for the lean years. We have laws against profiteering. "If those charged with their en forcement will see that profit-hogs go to jail, prices will soon tumble. The United States has become a robber's roost; greed has become morally and criminally lawless. In self-protection we must find the remedy and apply it." "The Department of Justice," said Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, , "has been setting mouse traps when bear traps were needed to catch the profiteers. There has been heal, ef fective action to curb the big profit eers and I don't think any will come from this administration. The presi dent refused last summer to exercise powers that we have prevented the present exortation in sugar. Con gress extended these powers as late as December 2, and still there was no action." Cold, Wet Weather Delays Corn Planting in Gage County Beatrice, Neb.. April 23. (Spe cial.) Farmers in Gage county who failed to get in their oats crop some weeks ago on account of the cold, wet weather, are finishing the work this week, and expect to begin plow ing for corn the coming week pro vided the weather remains favorable. Warm, dry weather is badly needed for crops of all kinds. Sugar Reaches High Mark. 9t T niii c Tn Anril 24 Iiio-ar retailed for 30c a pound here. The nrirp was attributed to the short age due to the poor Cuban crop and the yardmen s striKe. Peterson Motor Co. 2047 Farnam Street Omaha, Nebraska fJORDAfr JORDAN MOTOR CAR COMPANY, Inc.. Cleveland, Ohio 99 Pure Ivory Soap Is Used by Us When We Clean Your Rug But we remove every particle of the soap from the rug after cleaning jt, else the rug would rot. Let's do a 99 pure job of rug cleaning for YOU this spring. Phone Tyler 345. DRESHER BROTHERS Dyers Cleaners. 2211-17 Farnam St. Creighton Players to Give Drama of Christian Rome Work of Cardinal Wiseman To Be Presented on May 3 and 4. "The Hidden Gem," by Cardinal Wiseman, is to be presented by the Creighton Stage club on the even ings of May 3 and 4, at the Creighton auditorium. The play, which is a medley of pathos, humor and ex citement, has its setting in early Christian Rome, during the reign of Honorius, and has for its hero, St. Alexius. t Benedict M. McConville, a junior in the arts college, who won the Ne braska state intercollegiate oratori cal contest this year, will play the role of Euphemian, and Harold L. Downing will play the part of Alev ius. Thirteen-year-old Delbert R. Lyon of the high school will display his dramatic ability in the role of Cari nus. Besides the regular cast there will be a chorus of 20 voices. The play has been under the supervision of Professor Bakewell of the arts faculty. A special feature will be a musical program rendered by the newly or ganized Varsity Glee club and tho Creighton orchestra. The cast follows: Euphemian (A Roman Patrician) .. Benedict M. McConville Aleiiua (HI Hon) Harold Downing Carlnus (Hln Nephew) .. .Defbert R. Lyon Proculu (His Freedman) Ralph E. Svoboda Euaeblua Joseph McGroarty Bibulos .....J. Thomas. Russell Davos Arnold Yoet Strlail Francia L. Tlrka ITrsulus James H. Ready Verna Edward T. Polan Gannlft Henry T. Murray Imperial Chamberlain ..Creighton Crowley Officer Maurice K. Wogan First Robber Leo H. McCabe Second Robber Waldron Davis South Side $ j Held on Arson Charge Frank Roskoff, 4513 South Twenty-second street, was ordered held under bond of $1,000 for arson, in South Side police court yester day. Roskoff carried $3,800 insurance. He denied knowledge of the origin of the fire, stating that he was out to supper when the flames started. Kosnar Funeral Sunday The funeral of Joseph V. Kosnar, 35 years old, who died Tuesday at the state hospital at Lincoln, will be held this afternoon at 2 from the Korisko Bros.' Funeral Service home, South Twenty-third and Q streets. Mr. Kosnar was in busi ness on the South Side for a num ber of years and was prominent in lodge affairs, being a member of the W. O. W., Z. C. B. J. and other or ganizations. He is survived by his widow, Margaret Kosnar. New Sunday School St. Lukes Lutheran Sunday school. Twenty-fifth and K streets, will occupy its new quarters for the first time today. South Side Brevities Top: Benedict M. McConville, who will play the part of Euphem ian. Center: Delbert R. Lyon, who will play the part of Carinus. Bottom: Harold Downing, who will play the p"art of Alexius. .To Stanek Auto Delivery and Bait gape. Office phone. South nt. Residence phone, South 4016. FOR SALE. Two-story house, fouthcast corner 22d and K street; priced for quick selling at 13,000. See Wltg Bros.. 24th and N St. Cortland Man Convicted Of Murder to Serve Sentence Beatrice, Neb., April 24. (Spe cial.) Attorneys for O, W. Lang ley, recently found guilty of murder in the second degree tor slaying Jus tice Chris Pfeiffer at Cortland last August and sentenced to 20 years at hard labor in the Nebraska peni tentiary, today dropped the ea.;e and Langley must serve his sentence. He will be taken to Lincoln Mon day. At the close of the trial, which was one of the most sensational ever heard in Gage county, the attor neys for the defense charged mis conduct of certain jurors and al leged that it was impossible to se cure a fair trial for the defendant because of the prejudice against the prisoner in this county. He is 49 years of age and has a wife and 10 children. Mrs. Langley is working in a shirt factory here. Postoffice Examinations In Omaha Set for May 25 Washington, April 24. (Special Telegram.) The civil service com mission announced that examination for postmaster at Omaha will be held May 25. Postmasters appointed: Josiah Wells at Hoagland, Logan county, Neb., vice Harold Jared, resigned; Harriett De Haan at Conata, Pen nington county, S. D., vice Nettie C. B. Guiser, resigned; James R. Barr at Lost Springs, Courcise county, Wyo., vice II. D. Wood ward, declined. Prominent Beatrice Club Woman Dies, 66 Years Old Beatrice, Neb., April 24. (Spe cial) Mrs. Polly Schlosser, wife of J. L. Schlosser, died at her home in this city, aged .66 years. She came to Gage county 42 years ago and re sided at Blue Springs for 22 years and lived in this city for 20 yri. She was prominent in D. A. R. Bnd Eastern Star work in this section of the state. She is survived by her husband and one daughter, Mrs. Carrie A. Spellman of this city. Wymore Switchman Killed When Train Starts Suddenly Beatrice. Neb., April' 24. (Special Telegram.) Norval Hines, Burling ton switchman at Wymore, was killed in the yards when a freight train started suddenly while he was trying to uncouple cars. He was 26 years old, a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hines of Wymore. Firct District Delegate To Support General V :d Lincoln. Neb.. April 24.-0. A. Cooper of Humboldt, one of two delegates elected in Tuesday's Ne braska primary to attend the repub lican national convention from the First congressional district, said to day it was his present intention to support Major General Wood for the presidential nomination. Columbus Merchants Plan Big Auto and Style Show Columbus, Neb., April 24. (Spe cial.) The first annual auto show will be held here beginning April 27 and from present indications will be the biggest show given in this part of the state. Thirty-eight dif ferent makes of automobiles and trucks will be shown by the local dealers, with an added section for the tractor exhibits. The merchants of the city are also represented and will give style shows. Sixteen merchants will show their wares on live models selected from Columbus' most beautiful women. Elaborate features will open ' and close the four days, including a big electric auto parade the opening night, Elks day, ladies style show day, fraternal day and wind up with a mammoth pavement dance. Lincoln Man Held Lincoln, Neb.. April 24. (Spe cial.) W. E. Quigley, Lincoln man under arrest at Seward was ordered held under $1,000 bail on two counts of alteration of checks. He was unable to give bail and was re manded to jail. He will have his preliminary hearing next Wednesday. MEXICAN JURIST MAY BE DEPORTED FROM AMERICA Held for Violating White Slave Act, He Now Faces Further Prosecution by United States. Douglas. Ariz., April 24. United States officials here today wci. awaiting instructions from Vah ington whether further proceeding would be instituted against Gcr.. Ignacio L. Pesqueira, president n the supreme military court of Mev ico, and recently appointed military governor of Sonora who was ar rested here yesterday upon his ai -rival on the charge of violating the white slave act. Gen. Pasqueira is accused of hav ing transported a woman not his wife from El Paso, Tex., to Douglas for immoral purposes. According to government officials here he ad mitted his companion accompanied him from Mexico City ad t,1at was the secand trip she had made with him to the United States. Thi-. the officials said, was a violation i the immigration laws, and Gen Pes queira not only is liable to arrest fur bringing her into the United States, but also is liable to deportation. General Pesqueira was released from custody last night by It. t . Beumler, United States commission er, when friends put up a bond f r his appearance in the federal courts to answer the white slave charge. The same bondsmen also obtained the release of the woman. Senni t Maria Rodriguez, who was held in $1,000 bound as a witness. General Pesqueira was sent here to await the arrival of Carraiuii troops in Sonora when he was m have crossed into Mexico as militarv governor. He formerly was a mili tary governor of Sonora and his family live, in the Arizpe district of that state. He is the father of nine grown children and is 65 years old. Senora Rodriguez told government officials she is 23 years old, that she had been married and has a child in Mexico City. U. S. Army Wagons Sold Eagle Pass, Tex., April 24.-A shipment of army transport wagons, said to have been purchased from the United States government, passed through here today into Mexico. FOR RENT TYPEWRITERS All Makes Special rates to studenti. 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